Your comments are like ducks in a shooting gallery. I cannot resist the temptation
you presented.
Pump action and aim ...
Peter Hribar wrote:
> So, what does all this mean:
> 1. You are young, and You don't know that everything changes (and You'll
> 1loose 70% of energy for technologies that are disappearing).
This considers how you code. A good C coder can have a personal library of source
that is reused form project to project going ten
years back. Also it is not just the code but the experience.
>
> 2. In time of 1000 MHz processors it's obvious that Dragonball can' compete
> with faster chips. Video Phone on Dragonball? MP3 on Dragonball? It's a bed
> joke!
This is a gross and out of league comparison. Things like this are already happening
for the Palm. Like PCs, it will start with
hardware add-on's -- just read Firepad's business plan -- and then migrate into
software as the MIPS per Watts increases.
>
> 3. It's obvious that current OS is somewhere between DOS and Windows 3.1. I
> apologise, but Palm's OS developers are making lots of mistakes. "Texas"
> (American ASCII) code page in 3rd millennium?! Did they hear about Internet,
> Unicode, World?
And I guess you never heard of OS patching. If you want to do Unicode, all the
resources are there. Palm has been shipping a
Japanese version of the PalmOS for over a year with no problem at all. Taking Unicode
into account can slow down development. In
the States, it is often considered a 2.0 thing to do. Most small Palm software
companies see over 75% their sales as domestic.
Also, the world is learning English to work with high tech. Just like if you do
O-chem you learn German and if you are a diplomat,
you learn French.
>
> 4. Max. of 256 colours? 'RLE' compression?
Sounds fine to me. It is a good start. If you want better, get a laptop and buy a
copy of Photoshop.
>
> 5. How many OS are out? 10? 20? 30? Backward compatibility for BW, greyscale
> devices? It's crazy!
You claim to have 25 years of coding experience? I guess you don't remember the
release of the Mac II in 1986. The development
parallels between that machine and the IIIc are frightfully similar.
>
> 6. With my 25 years in programming, and their "Just for US" philosophy, I
> belief that they tend to disappear in 5 years.
I think that was said about Microsoft in 1980 when everyone was still coding CP/M.
One thing you must remember is economic
conditions and general freedom of opportunity where a start-up company isn't viewed as
a threat to some megacorp exec. with
relatives having seats in a Parliament.
>
> 7. They will also need to cut with the 'old' OS's, like MS with Windows 3.1
> or 98. And you'll have to learn new SDK, C++, multimedia ... That's normal.
If you haven't noticed, Palm has been successful by refusing to be normal and zagging
when everyone else zigs. If you don't know,
the old DOS commands work fine on Windows 2000 as long as you stick with the API and
didn't resolve to writing TSRs.
>
> 8. Palm, in current condition, is useless in future. It's an agenda which
> want to become a PC. And it seems that someone in Palm know that...
I don't know what you are reading or doing in other functions but that statement is
just dead wrong. Overall, Palm's backward
support has been very helpful since older machines tend to become less valuable but
start to become good PR tools like leaflets and
newspapers. When someone sees an old Pilot 1000 in the back of some office, they like
the idea and buy the latest in Office Max.
Steve
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